A heavy steel bridge in course of erection between Haifa and Deraa, the branch from the main sacred line to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea 122 The engineering wonder of the Hedjaz Railway--the sudden descent into “The Devil’s Belly” 123 The railway in the domain of the Genii 124 The lonely path of the Pilgrim’s line through the silent, rocky and sandy wastes of Arabia 125 Meiggs’ masterpiece--the V-switch by means of which the railway is lifted from one level to another, showing turntable and method of operation 130 The Infiernillo Bridge 130 A horseshoe curve in a tunnel 131 The first Verrugas Viaduct, which was destroyed by a cloudburst and rock-slide 134 The highest tunnel in the world under construction 135 A British locomotive in the realm of perpetual Andean snow, 15,865 feet above sea-level, on the Oroya Railway 136 Looking through the tunnels on the Oroya Railway 137 The greatest bridge in the world 144 Setting up the world’s railway building record in Africa 145 Construction train on the way to the railhead crossing a temporary timber bridge 154 The longest bridge in Africa, 1,300 feet in length, across the Kafue River 154 The “Hanging Bridge,” one of the railway wonders of the Denver and Rio Grande, in the Royal Gorge of Colorado 155 The railway two miles above the sea 166 A “double-header” climbing the cliff of Animas Canyon on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway 167 Crossing the continental “divide” on the “Moffatt” road 170 The Moffatt Railway playing “hide-and-seek” among the tunnels in Gore Canyon 171 The gigantic snowplough, the largest yet built, which keeps the higher levels of the “Moffatt” line through the Rocky Mountains free from the heavy falls of snow 172 A deep cutting 173 Boring one of the ten tunnels 173 Before the explosion 180 The blast 180 The cliff-face dislodged 180 The cliff-face broken up 180 The Puttapa Gap Bridge, 200 feet in length 181 The Hookina Creek Bridge 181